One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.